Word: asceticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Unbowing Bosses. Another casualty was Home Minister Gulzarilat Nanda. Indira Gandhi has been under so much criticism in recent weeks for fail ing to take stern measures against In dia's growing wave of rioting that she realized it was time to take decisive action. So, out went...
Two men have taken most of the turns at the helm of Burma ever since the nation became independent in 1948: gentle, popular U Nu, the kerchiefed, sometime Buddhist monk who became Burma's premier politician; and tough, ascetic General Ne Win, chief of the Burmese army. The first...
Bunuel's 42 minute black comedy, "Simon of the Desert" turned out to be one of his most flawless, if shortest, films. "Simon," a re-telling of the life of the famous ascetic who spent most of his life standing on a huge pillar in the desert, is a synthesis...
The condemnation stems somewhat from the anti-drug pronouncement of one particularly well-thought-of Indian religious ascetic, Avatar Meher Baba. American psychedelists had appealed to this guru for spiritual advice even some journeying to India "forever," for "the Truth," as part of a widespread LSD-nick Orientalism. But it...
Giap was an accomplished lecturer in French history who "could step to a blackboard and draw in the most minute detail every battle plan of Napoleon," one of his former students recalls. A passionate ascetic who could veer abruptly from violent emotion to icy control, he was early dubbed "The...